Do You Keep These 10 Things in Your Camping Kit?
Most campers keep their kit stocked and ready to go. I’ll admit not all of us have a laminated pack sheet which they tick off every time they load the car… but hey, you can’t all be as spreadsheet-awesome as me, right? But do you actually have all the essentials in there? Oh I know you’ll have enough sleeping bags, pegs, plates and dry socks. But take a look at this list – campsite winners will have every...
Making Your Home Grandparent-friendly
We’ve just waved off my husband’s parents after their annual Christmas visit; and for the first time we realised that they are, in fact, getting older. They’re almost in their 80’s, and my FIL is not in good health at all. And I’ve realised we’ve switched life roles again. Once they were parenting us. Then we parented our small people… and now it feels as though we’re parenting them as...
Top Tips to Create a Teenage Bedroom Paradise
Your baby got big, is almost all-grown-up… and it is officially time to scrap the farm animal wallpaper and invest in something a little more adult. Renovating a bedroom can be expensive and time consuming, but with a little thought you can quite easily create a space that your teenager will love without breaking the bank (or needing to do it again in 6mths time). In fact, we recently did a kids-to-teens bedroom makeover for...
When’s the best time to put a TV in your children’s bedroom?
Have you put a TV in your children’s bedroom? How old were or are they? It’s one of those unexpected parenting dilemmas, isn’t it? We all knew there’d be decisions over names and vaccines and weaning and bedtimes. But who knew we’d be making a parenting decision over 4K TVs? Seriously, did any of us expect the endless stressful undercurrent of constant parental decision-making (when should I allow them to...
Top 5 fitness tips from a couch potato (ex) for real life people
Getting Fit – it’s January, so it’s pretty hard to hide from, isn’t it?You hear it from everyone, everywhere;”It’s a New Year, it’ll be a New Me.””This is the year I’m REALLY going to do it.””2023 is definitely the year I finally lose weight/get fit/actually GO to the gym I joined (three years ago)/swim every single week…” And of course, we all mean...
The best spare bed – go Aerobed. No, really.
A couple of years ago we took a risk, and instead of pulling the various parts of the old pine bed out of the loft (and the old double mattress out of the garage), we asked my disabled Father In Law to sleep on an airbed for Christmas. Not as harsh as it sounds – we’re not talking an old rubber pump-up on the floor. We were talking a properly good big-and-solid Platinum Aerobed. Being a polite sort, he agreed to give it a...